G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

Rho CrB

Rho CrB is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Corona Borealis 56.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,921 K, and it shines at 1.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 56 years ago.

56.2 lybrightness mag 5.39G2V

Also catalogued as HR 5968 · HD 143761 · HIP 78459 · Gliese Gl 606.2

5,921 K

temperature

5.39

apparent magnitude

1.81× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

56 years

at light speed from Earth

1.03×

as hot as the Sun

1.81×

the Sun's light output

4.21

absolute magnitude

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Rho CrBG-type

Sky regionCorona Borealisthis direction

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Bright stars in Corona Borealis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Corona Borealis

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.